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Intel's Fab 42 in Chandler, Ariz., is installing new production equipment and will begin making semiconductors with 14-nanometer features by the end of 2013, Intel executives reported. The chipmaker last year said that two other facilities, in Ireland and Oregon, would also produce 14nm chips, but it didn't give an update on the timetable for those facilities.

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ARM Holdings is closely working with Samsung Electronics on the development of chips with 14-nanometer features and FinFETs. "The lower nominal operating voltage of 14nm FinFET expands the voltage ranges in both underdrive and overdrive conditions. In an ARM Big.Little processing system, we can achieve higher performance on the top end of the range as well as higher efficiency in the middle and lower operating ranges," ARM's Ron Moore said.

GlobalFoundries reported it has been able to fabricate a dual-core processor with 14-nanometer features, based on the ARM Cortex-A9 design, with its 3D 14nm-XM FinFET transistors, and that the resulting chip is twice as energy-efficient as ICs made with its 28nm super-low-power process.

Samsung Electronics reported it has been able to tape out its first test chips that contain FinFETs with dimensions of 14 nanometers. The chipmaker employed a Cortex-A7 design from ARM Holdings for the test chips, along with IC design software from Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys.

Intel will begin producing chips with 14-nanometer features next year and is in research and development for the 10nm process generation and beyond, CEO Paul Otellini recently told investors. The chipmaker is preparing its wafer fabrication plants to make 10nm chips, with 7nm and 5nm process nodes to follow, he said.